Restaurations des monuments antiques par les architextes de l'Académie de France à Rome [series]

Section, Temple of Poseidon, Paestum (plate 4); Labrouste, Henri, 1801-1875 Les temples de Paestum. Restauration exécutée en 1829 par Henri Labrouste Publication info: [Paris Firmin-Didot] [1877] Physical descrip: 16p. Series title: (Restaurations des monuments antiques par les architextes de l'Académie de France à Rome.) Source: University of Toronto Libraries; http://main.library.utoronto.ca/ (accessed 1/12/2008

Restaurations des monuments antiques par les architextes de l'Académie de France à Rome [series]

Interior elevation with frontal view of statue of Poseidon, Temple of Poseidon, Paestum (plate 4); Labrouste, Henri, 1801-1875 Les temples de Paestum. Restauration exécutée en 1829 par Henri Labrouste Publication info: [Paris Firmin-Didot] [1877] Physical descrip: 16p. Series title: (Restaurations des monuments antiques par les architextes de l'Académie de France à Rome.) Source: University of Toronto Libraries; http://main.library.utoronto.ca/ (accessed 1/12/2008

Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève

Close view of east façade, looking up; Labrouste finally received his first important public commission: the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Place du Panthéon, Paris. He worked for four years (1839-1842) on the design of the building, which was opened in 1851. He conceived the library as a sort of basilica in the Roman manner, with an elongated rectangular plan; the building is also reminiscent of a medieval monastic refectory and it has been compared to the refectory of the 13th-century St Martin-des-Champs, Paris. The main book stacks were placed on the ground-floor, expressed externally as a heavily rusticated base with small openings; above was placed the reading-room, with access via a staircase block projecting from the centre of the long, rear façade. The most striking feature of the Bibliothèque is the structure of the reading-room, where an exposed iron frame was used for the first time in a monumental building. The frame consists of decorated cast-iron arches and piers, with fireproof 'vaults' formed from latticework clad in plaster. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 12/2/2007

Saint Genevieve Library

exterior, reading room, 201710 Place du Pantheon, 75005, Paris, Franc

Saint Genevieve Library

interior, reading room, 201710 Place du Pantheon, 75005, Paris, Franc

Restaurations des monuments antiques par les architextes de l'Académie de France à Rome [series]

Detail of Doric capital, Temple of Poseidon, Paestum (plate 10); Labrouste, Henri, 1801-1875 Les temples de Paestum. Restauration exécutée en 1829 par Henri Labrouste Publication info: [Paris Firmin-Didot] [1877] Physical descrip: 16p. Series title: (Restaurations des monuments antiques par les architextes de l'Académie de France à Rome.) Source: University of Toronto Libraries; http://main.library.utoronto.ca/ (accessed 1/12/2008

BNF Richelieu-Louvois Library

interior, reading room, 201758 Rue de Richelieu, 75002 Paris, Franc